highest rating «unmistakable top class» «An intelligently and proficiently interpreted piece of reminiscense of a completlety new and promising kind!»
«Spillmann provides exciting variations on Musorgskys «Pictures at an Exhibition» with his outstandingly-staffed septet.»
«Zurich trumpeter Matthias Spillmann goes way beyond just a new instrumentation. For his septet he repaints the pictures totally and…
«The new program of mats-up is a cumulation in every sense…much of it recalls the milestones of the Jazz tradition…
«Spillmann is both a brilliant writer and a brilliant trumpet player and his band leaves nothing to be desired.»
« The smooth and sensitive solo by spillmann over «The Old Castle» bears comparison with the legendary Concierto de Aranjuez…
«Spillmanns adaption is couraged, he is taking Musorgky beyond…»
«The new album «In The Beginning» is a remarkable witness of Spillmann’s work as a composer and arranger. And a…
«Top-calibre music, free of clichees, on a international level… Needless to say that all of the seven provide remarkeable solistic…
«We hope that this wonderful group will return soon….His music is far away of stupid highspeed acrobatics as he is…